The ground hosted several football games for the 1948 Summer Olympics.

The ground has also hosted Oxbridge varsity matches in rugby and football.

* The ground has hosted the most Socceroo matches outside of Australia and was one of the pioneers in hosting ( neutral ) international friendlies.

In 2005, the city hosted the SAFF Championship at this ground, as well as the Geo Super Football League 2007, which attracted capacity crowds during the games.

The ground has hosted touring teams since the 19th century.

Plans to further expand the ground to 45, 000 seats are being examined, this would have been a mandatory task if the World Cup of 2018 or 2022 would have been hosted by the Netherlands and Belgium.

The grounds once housed a football ground, which hosted the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914 as well as London County Cricket Club games from 1900 to 1908, when they folded, and Crystal Palace F. C.

The club's Strangford Road ground has hosted Ireland international matches, most recently against Australia " A " and South Africa in 1998.

The work was already in process when the Air Force hosted the official ground breaking ceremonies on 8 May 1957.

The club was founded in 1928 and in 1996 moved to a new purpose-built ground at Monks Lane, which has since hosted England U21 fixtures.

Maine Road, nicknamed the " Wembley of the North " by its designers, hosted the largest-ever crowd at an English club ground when 84, 569 attended an FA Cup tie against Stoke City on 3 March 1934.

When it hosted football matches, it had the largest capacity of any amateur ground in Scotland.

DARPA has hosted competitions in 2004 & 2005 to involve private companies and universities to develop unmanned ground vehicles to navigate through rough terrain in the Mojave Desert for a final prize of $ 2 Million.

The Farrar Road ground has served as home to the club ever since and has also hosted two Welsh Senior Cup Finals in 1928 and 1953.

The ground has also hosted various other domestic finals and tournaments over the years.

* In 2009, David Van Dyke, a photojournalist with Metro News Canada, called into Coast-to-Coast ( guest hosted by Art Bell that night ) and warned listeners that Toronto would become a testing ground for police tactics and subverting citizens at a soon to be announced global summit.

The city hosts the K-League football club Ulsan Hyundai FC, who, after the 2002 FIFA World Cup, relocated from their former stadium in Jung-gu, which is now a municipal ground, to the Munsu Stadium, which hosted several matches during the 2002 World Cup.

The Assembly Rooms started the trend in 1981, taking over the empty Georgian building that had once hosted the International Festival Club, and the following year The Circuit was prominent ; it was in fact a " tented village ”, that was situated on a piece of empty ground, popularly known as “ The Hole in The Ground ”, once the site of a snooker club ( Pool's ), where the Saltire complex was subsequently built in the early 1990s.

( The park briefly had another sports ground, with the archery range that hosted the archery competitions for the 1972 Summer Olympics on the Werneckwiese by the Kleinhesseloher See.

Ironically the ground hosted an 8, 000 crowd without any problems for the visit of West Ham United in that year's 5th round FA Cup.

In April 2009 the ground hosted the Conference League Cup final, broadcast live on Setanta Sports.

The ground most recently hosted a Scotland game in 2006, when Hampden had been booked for a Robbie Williams concert in advance of the UEFA Euro 2008 qualification fixtures being determined.

The ground most recently hosted a Scotland game in October 1999.

The ground is less than a mile from both Witton and Aston railway stations and has hosted sixteen England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899 and the most recent in 2005.

Villa Park was the first English ground to stage international football in three different centuries and has hosted matches during several international tournaments.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

A pervading quality of free lyricism and a building from turns close to the ground towards jumps into the air gives the work its central focus.

The third type, however, wrenches attention from the life of action and interests in the community and focuses it on the ground of being on which the community depends for its existence.

It has lost its ground of being and floats in a mist of appearances.

But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Eliminate the vulnerability of aircraft on the ground and you have essentially eliminated its vulnerability to long-range ballistic missiles.

The Jeep fought its way through the low spot and got onto higher ground.

The High Court held that the company must apply its percentage allowance to the value of the raw materials removed from the ground, not to the revenue from finished products.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

Footing depth depends on the region and its ground frost level.

In the next series on English soil in 2013, Durham's Chester-le-Street ground will host its first Ashes Test match.

However, its describers claim that other features of its skeleton reflect adaptation to bipedalism on the ground as well.

A system at absolute zero still possesses quantum mechanical zero-point energy, the energy of its ground state.

: The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences ; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides.

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

Josephus, a contemporary, reports that " Jerusalem ... was so thoroughly razed to the ground by those that demolished it to its foundations, that nothing was left that could ever persuade visitors that it had once been a place of habitation.

When the excited atoms relax back into their ground state, a low-intensity glow is emitted, giving the technique its name.

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

When Congress overrode his veto, the project had its green light and ground was first broken in 1991.